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Mar 2019
41m 55s

JUSTICE! Beauty queen teacher Tara Grins...

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More than 13 years after Tara Grinstead vanished from her Georgia home, the first trial related to her murder is conducted. Bo Dukes, the man who admitted he helped his friend, Ryan Duke, burned the beauty queen and teacher's body in a pecan orchard, was in a courtroom to face justice. Nancy Grace looks at the trial with a panel of experts including Dr. Maurice Godwin, the forensic pyschologist and private detective whose work was crucial to solving the case, forensics expert Joseph Scott Morgan, Atlanta lawyer and juvenile judge Ashley Willcott, psychologist Caryn Stark, and Crime Stories reporter Robyn Walensky. Private investigator Vincent Hill also joins Nancy from the Wilcox County courthouse.

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